Presented by Jeff Gaynor • President, American Resilience, LLC America's global cyber adversaries appreciate our Nation's increasing reliance on an Internet that exceeds our ability to "secure." These predators also appreciate reliance multiplies target values and both immediate and cascading consequences. With Americans' willing acceptance of the risks inherent in "The Internet of Things" and it's convenient, entertaining, highly invasive and exploitable devices; our global adversaries are also coming to realize America has created its own Achilles Heel. In her March 18 State of Homeland Security Address, former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen (among many courageous and direct statements) observed: "We face a choice: Shape the world around us or get shaped by it." She added: "We are going from "highly reactive" to "highly resilient" and to that end called for "Relentless Resilience" and a "Whole of Society Approach" to correct America's increasingly exploited cyber-reliant critical infrastructure and national preparedness trajectories. In examining the above realities, Jeff will cite history, lexicon issues, and pose questions the answers to which drive "The Resilience Imperative." He will then present the operationally proven, objectively measurable, nationally comprehensive and compatible resilience-based mindsets, metrics, methodologies and technologies required to achieve the Secretary's objectives and in the process of doing so, ensure America's cyber-reliant safety, security, quality of life and future for this and generations of Americans' to follow.